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Great minds that are healthy are never considered geniuses, while this sublime qualification is lavished on brains that are often inferior but are slightly touched by madness.

Guy de Maupassant

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.
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Attraction Death Future Past Present
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress.
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Goodness Life Love Misunderstand Treat Yourself
Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Man World
History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.
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Excitement History Lady Old
I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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Body Breathe Love Myself Night Passionate Patience
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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Black Face Feeling Poet Soul Writing
Broad daylight does not encourage the apprehension of horror.
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Encouragement Horror
The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity.
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Artist Greatness Humanity Personal Vision
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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Anguish Desire Enemy Man
Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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Breathe Death Drink Live Oneself Sleep
The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.
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Difficult Genius Simplicity Woman Wonderful
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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Patriotic Religion War
To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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Avoid Development Each Other Eyes
The bed comprehends our whole life, for we were born in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it
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Bed Born Death Life
The English have only three sauces – a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.
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English Flavor Food
Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.
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Existence Life Memories Ourselves Perfection Universe

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